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NewsNew Towing Carrousel Causes a Stir
One of the most interesting technical innovations to be introduced to the towage industry at ITS 2002, and one that has progressed since the conference, was undoubtedly the Carrousel Towing System, a revolutionary patented towing connection. A towing connection mounted on a completely circular track, the so called Carrousel is ...
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NewsMicro-Research Camera Moonlights on Marine Pollution
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency in Southampton has found an ideal camera for its aerial marine pollution surveillance work in the unlikely world of microscopic research.
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NewsChannel Navigation Data Service for Busy Dover Strait
A contract worth over £ 1m to provide the MCA operated Channel Navigation Information Service (CNIS) system for the Dover Strait has been won by Norcontrol IT.
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NewsBuoyant Hydrosphere Lights Up Exhibition
After a long winter of development, the hampshirebased navaids supplier Hydrosphere UK Ltd will launch a new range of low cost navigation and regulatory buoys on Stand 126 at seawork2002.
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NewsSpanish Builders Show Their Wares
Among the new tugs displayed in Bilbao was the newly completed Zeus 1 due to be delivered to Svitzer Wijsmuller for LNG terminal operations at Point Fortin in Trinidad.
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News'Unsinkable' Replacement Pontoon Brings Wapping Great Success
With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, London''s Metropolitan Police were in need of an ''unsinkable'' replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.
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NewsSwedes Bring Delight to Oil Spill Responders
Oil companies and coastguards have tested a wide range of methods for detecting oil spills at night. Although often both expensive and complex, this equipment has yet to provide a fully satisfactory solution.
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Briggs Marine Wins Scapa Flow Oil Recovery Contract
Briggs Marine has been awarded a two year contract, with an option for further years, by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to remove oil from the sunken battleship Royal Oak in Orkney''s Scapa Flow.
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NewsNavigation Systems Breakthrough for Chinese Newbuild Projects
Kelvin Hughes has secured contracts to supply navigational systems for a series of Chinese vessels.
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NewsVisualisation Breakthrough for Marine Simulator Training
Simulator-based training for mariners has been taken to a new level of authenticity with the introduction of a next generation visual presentation system from Transas. New visualisation software named Seagull_Vis 4000 represents the synthetic environment with an unprecedented level of realism and includes a number of advanced effects designed specifically ...
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NewsBrave New World to Debut in Brisbane
After many years of development by Kalmar Industries and Patrick Stevedores, the two companies now expect the world''s first automated straddle carrier system to be operational on Berth 7 at Brisbane''s Fisherman Island facility by September.
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NewsTitan Surveys Possible Boxport Development
A trend has developed in the Americas to place container trans-shipment ports off the eastern seaboard of the goods-hungry USA. North-south trade along the Atlantic coast and east-west traffic with Europe utilise these facilities.
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Boskalis Wins Gothenburg Harbour Dredging Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster nv has won an order for broadening and deepening the entrance channels to Sweden''s Port of Gothenburg in a dredging contract valued at more than ?30m. The client is the Swedish Maritime Organisation (SMO) and the Safer Fairways to Gothenburg Project, will start in December, with completion ...
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NewsKorean Connection Boosts Scots Power Output
Morrison Engineering in Skye has just completed Milovaig, a new 13.5m steel workboat designed by Alistair Salmon of A G Salmon & Co for Glendale Salmon of Dunvegan.
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Innovations Showcase Boosts Visitor Focus on New Products
New at seawork2002 is the Innovations Showcase, providing the perfect focus on products and projects which have come to the market or been undertaken in the past year.
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NewsFixed Satellite Phones Reach Small Boat Market
Iridium is a system of 66 satellites cross-linked in space and orbiting just 485 miles above Earth. Because the low-orbiting Iridium satellites are much closer to Earth than other systems (the geo-stationary Inmarsat systems orbits at 22,223 miles), it means the antenna for a satellite telephone is reduced dramatically in ...
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NewsPerkins Sabre Powers Pelican Pollution Boat
Perkins Sabre engines have been chosen to provide the main propulsion and auxiliary power for the Pelican 2000 Series of specialised pollution and surface refuse clearance boats manufactured in France by Cannes-based Chaudronnerie Bagnis. The engines are being supplied by the Perkins distributor for the region, Rectification P L M ...
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NewsNew 'Delta' Boat for German Rescue Service
Germany''s lifeboat service DGzRS in Bremen has added the new delta-hulled, wide-stern rescue boat Woltera to its fleet of more than 60 versatile lifeboats and rescue cruisers.
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NewsBig Cats Chase Passengers Onto Thames
Under Mayor Ken Livingstone''s Transport Policy for central London, the River Thames has been ''rediscovered'' as the passenger transport artery it was in the past, helping to reduce congestion on the capital''s roads and providing commuters with an alternative to overcrowded tube trains and buses.
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Trials Mirth at Twelve Quays Berth
The Port of Liverpool''s Twelve Quays River Terminal for Irish Sea ro-ro ferries handled its first ship last month when berthing trials by NorseMerchant Ferries'' 21,500gt vessel Lagan Viking were successfully completed.
